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Best multi purpose compost this year ?
Sarah Riggall
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Hi all dose any body know what is the best multi purpose compost this year ? I brought some auther bowers this year as that's all my local garden center had at the time but it has grown mushrooms and mould and the plant poted up in it have died . I used west woods with john inning last year and was really good but can't find anyone who stocks it this year .
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50 litres at B+Q ,verne type.very good.
Wickes has a buy 2 get 3rd free on Westland. its got John innes in it. £5.99 A bag for 50 ltrs. I use it every year and its great. I tried the B&Q one a few years ago and I kept getting a black residue coming out of it, like it was covered in soot or something. I also found it to be very woody.
I find Homebase MP possibly the best from a large retailer.BQ seems to have improved but not for seed has it has too much woody bits in it.
Used a composts called Jacks Magic for my baskets and containers last year and had great results
The Homebase own brand Plus has far too much in the way of large and woody stuff in it. It looks more like the output from a garden shredder than compost. I used some last autumn to plant up bulbs in pots and the surface looked like a mountain range as the bulbs started to shoot. Instead of just pushing up through the compost, lumps of compost were pushed up.
I am using the standard Homebase mpc this year it's very good, also tried some Westland mpc & it seems identical to the Homebase stuff.
All our allotment plot-holders swear by Clover multi-purpose. It is 100% peat, and does all the jobs very well.
Ethics aside, when you are doing a lot of plant-raising, chopped tree products are a waste of time.
Cant beat Jacks Magic from homebase,the best compost I have ever bought. A bit dearer than others but well worth it.
Jacks magic without a doubt!! lovely stuff I got deal 3 for £12
Have used J Arthur Bowers this year, as have a number of friends, and have found it very poor, with large amounts of wood waste and plastic pieces, presumably from recycling centres! Will not use again.